Hitler lived a very lonely and isolated life. Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria (Luckas). He was raised for most of his childhood in Linz, the capital of upper Austria (Luckas). “Hitler never advanced beyond a secondary …show more content…
“Conditions were ripe for the development of the Nazi party because of the severity of the peace terms added to the economic woes and brought widespread discontent” (Luckas).“The climax of this rapid growth of the Nazi Party in Bavaria came in an attempt to seize power in the Munich Putsch (Beer Hall Putsch) of November 1923. When HItler and General Ludendorff took advantage of the prevailing confusion and opposition to the Weimar Republic to force the leaders of the Bavarian government and the local army commander to proclaim a national revolution” (Luckas). “In the melee that resulted, the police and army fired at the advancing marchers, killing a few of them and four police man were killed” (Luckas). Placed on trial for treason, he was sentenced five years in jail but got out in nine months (Luckas). While imprisoned he started to write his book Mein Kampf or My Struggle, he described the Jew as the “destroyer of culture” “a parasite within the nation” and “a menace” (Luckas). “When Hitler was released from prison he was forbidden to make speeches in many German states” (Luckas). On January 30, 1933, President of Germany, Hindenburg, offered him chancellorship of Germany because the Nazi party was the second largest in the country and Hitler accepted the offer. “Once in power, Hitler established an absolute dictatorship” and became the Führer of Germany …show more content…
The way he ran everyone in his government was by “deliberately creating offices and organizations with overlapping authority, Hitler effectively prevented anyone of theses particular realms from ever becoming sufficiently strong to challenge his own absolute authority”(Luckas). Hitler’s army killed about six million jews and about five million racially inferior or politically dangerous people (Luckas). “Several attempts on Hitler’s life, the most successful was made on July 20, 1944 when Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg exploded a bomb at a conference being held at Hitler’s Headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia”